REDEEMER ROCKWALL SERMONS

Zach Pummill 6/14/26 Zach Pummill 6/14/26

“God’s Work In Us”

Paul encourages a weary and discouraged church to continue in faith, love and obedience. God is at work in us as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling under the weight of Christs Love for you!

Zach Pummill 6/7/26 Zach Pummill 6/7/26

“Humiliation And Exaltation”

The church must face suffering together in unity and love. This requires rejecting selfish ambition and the hunger for personal glory, humbly valuing others and attending to their interests. Jesus provides the supreme pattern: although God, he emptied himself, became a servant, and endured death on a cross.

His humiliation, however, was not the story’s end; God highly exalted him.

Those united to Christ likewise share both his sufferings and his future glory. Therefore, believers can embrace humble service, face trials together, and surrender their plans with hope. Remembering their promised resurrection and exaltation gives them courage to follow Christ’s pattern: humble yourself before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Zach Pummill 5/31/26 Zach Pummill 5/31/26

“Suffer For His Sake”

This sermon explores how Christians develop an uncircumstantial faith rooted in Christ rather than changing conditions. Paul models this faith while imprisoned, declaring that living is Christ and dying is gain. His confidence rests in union with Jesus: God is transforming believers into Christ’s image, not apart from life’s circumstances but through them.

Therefore, hardship is neither meaningless nor evidence that God has stopped working. Even opposition and suffering can become instruments of grace, shaping Christians to share Christ’s story and likeness. Paul calls the church to live as citizens of the gospel, standing firm and striving together without fear.

The sermon challenges a comfortable, diluted gospel that treats belief as a path around suffering, reminding listeners that following Jesus includes taking up their cross. Believers can face each circumstance by trusting God’s ongoing work, surrendering to his purposes, and praying, “Help me live Christ.”

Ryan Swindle 5/24/26 Ryan Swindle 5/24/26

“ If I Am To Live”

It's a strange wisdom from Paul to say "This will turn out for my deliverance by life or by death" It seems wrong to think of our deliverance via death but there's a lot more going on in this story than we might think. Is he foolish? How is this even a question for Paul?? Paul sees a different world than we do. O Lord may we see the world like Paul. May we be fools for you. Spiritual people with a mind like Christ.

Zach Pummill 5/17/26 Zach Pummill 5/17/26

“I Am Put Here”

How does Paul speak of an uncircumstantial joy while locked in a Roman in prison? It's because of how the gospel has taught him to see his circumstances and trust that God put him there. Paul's joy was not tethered to his comfort. Rather then asking God "why is this happening to me?", he learned to ask, "How can I be a part of what God is doing here?" So if you want joy that isn't tied to your circumstances, then we must learn to say: "Lord use me today, my life is at your disposal."

Zach Pummill 5/10/26 Zach Pummill 5/10/26

“A Reminder And Request”

Paul writes to a struggling church and encourages them that God is at work in them in the midst of their hardship. He urges them to see beyond circumstances, to move towards one another, and trust that God is going to finish what he started.

Ryan Swindle 5/3/26 Ryan Swindle 5/3/26

“ The Cross–Shaped Vine”

Jesus is the Vine. We are the branches. The Cross is the trellis. We can only find life if we are in the vine. What does it mean to abide in Christ the vine and bear fruit? What does that fruit look like?

Ryan Swindle 4/26/26 Ryan Swindle 4/26/26

“One Voice Among Many”

There's a volume war going on. The "Thief" is trying to fill your ears with voices that will steal, kill, and destroy. Do you know the voice of the "Good Shepherd"? Can you tell the difference? Listen closely, Jesus is calling.

Patrick DeMuth 4/19/26 Patrick DeMuth 4/19/26

“On Reconciliation”

Paul’s letter to Philemon tells a great story with a greater message. And It's all about reconciliation. Like Paul, we are called ministers of reconciliation. So how do we reconcile ourselves to those who have wronged us? And who do we need to reconcile with?

Ryan Swindle 4/12/26 Ryan Swindle 4/12/26

“Life After Easter”

So.... Easter was awesome! We brought our best, and felt really great, but here we are a week after easter and we find ourselves still tethered to this broken world. So what happens now? What should life look like after resurrection? It's a risen life! You were "Raised With Him" so set your eyes on on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of the father and live!

Zach Pummill 4/5/26 Zach Pummill 4/5/26

“Rest And Resurrection”

Rest may feel impossible, but Hebrews announces hope: an unending Sabbath still awaits God’s people. This rest is more than relief from work; it is the completion of striving and joy in God’s presence—humanity’s created purpose. Sabbath offers a foretaste of that future, while exposing the taskmasters, desires, fears, and false identities that keep our hearts restless. Its difficulty is part of its gift: it reveals our bondage and invites us to trust God rather than manufacture rest ourselves.

Jesus displays God’s commitment to that promise. Throughout his ministry and Holy Week, he released people from bondage, trusted the Father through rejection and suffering, completed his work on the cross, and rested in the grave. His resurrection opened the way into God’s eternal rest. Believers strive to enter that rest by holding to their confession, remembering that their identity is hidden with Christ, and approaching the throne of grace.

When anxiety and weariness rise, we can trust the Sabbath Keeper who finished his work, defeated death, and promises to bring his people home.

Ryan Swindle 3/29/26 Ryan Swindle 3/29/26

“Rest And The Mission of God”

We can only rest when we enter into the mission of God. What is the mission of God? Isaiah 58 describes it as a fast that looses bonds of wickedness and frees the oppressed. And sharing bread with the hungry and bringing the homeless/poor into your house. Jesus says what you have done to the least of these you have done unto me.

Zach Pummill 3/22/26 Zach Pummill 3/22/26

“Rest And Forgiveness”

What if we struggle to rest because of unforgiveness? The Bible teaches us that if we want to experience the rest of God, we need to release those who have sinned against us. In the same way that Christ forgave us and released us from our bondage, we are called to do the same for others. So who do you need to forgive?

Zach Pummill 3/16/26 Zach Pummill 3/16/26

“Rest And The Releaser”

Luke tells us about Jesus in a very unique way. It's all through the lens of "sabbath". Jesus defines, and begins his own ministry in terms of sabbath. Our God is committed to giving rest. If that is what Jesus was doing then.... Isn't that what Jesus would be doing now?

Ryan Swindle 3/8/26 Ryan Swindle 3/8/26

“Rest For The Blessed”

The blessings for following God's law apply to the sabbath! But so do the curses! Find your rest entering into Christ's sabbath, and be blessed.

Ryan Swindle 3/1/26 Ryan Swindle 3/1/26

“Rest Together”

So God is calling us to rest. And He's calling us to bring rest to our house. So we're resting together? What does that look like in real life?

Zach Pummill 2/22/26 Zach Pummill 2/22/26

“Rest For Your House”

Sabbath is war against anything that would take God's place in your life. In the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath command comes immediately after the commands about God’s place in our lives. In Sabbath rest, we are remembering who God is and we are being like him and giving rest to others.

Ryan Swindle 2/15/26 Ryan Swindle 2/15/26

“He Makes Me Rest”

Sheep are restless. The hardest thing, is getting them to rest. Sheep would rather be consumed than rest. Sound familiar? The sheep think they know best, but the shepherd makes them rest.

Zach Pummill 2/8/26 Zach Pummill 2/8/26

“Rest from Anxiety”

We can only rest if we trust God. In Exodus 16 God teaches his people how to trust him by giving them the Sabbath and teaching them how to rest. They had to let go of their anxiety about what they would eat tomorrow and trust that he would provide for them. What if the Sabbath would you rest from your anxiety?

Zach Pummill 2/1/26 Zach Pummill 2/1/26

“Rest from Taskmasters”

Rest is an act of war in the cosmic realm, because when we try to rest we realize there is a war all around us. When we try to rest that’s when our taskmasters go to work. In this sermon we look at four snapshots from Exodus that show us who the taskmaster is and how he tries to keep us in bondage.